Krstanović published his first poem in 1962 in Sarajevo children's magazine Vesela sveska, and his first story in 1971 in Zagreb newspaper Večernji List.
As an elementary school pupil he contributed in Male novine, Kekec, Plavi vjesnik, Galeb, Borba, Ilustrovana politika, Slobodna Dalmacija and other periodicals.
He published poetry and stories in Republika, Književne novine, Politika, NIN, Start, Forum, Pitanja, Savremenik, Polja, Letopis Matice srpske, Mogućnosti, Oslobođenje, Odjek, Stvaranje, Stremljenje, Srpski književni glasnik, Ovdje, Revija and many other periodicals.
[4] Krstanović was the author of numerous poems and articles,[5] as well as monodrama The man on the world, a drop on the leaf /Čovek na svitu, kap na listu/ in two versions (1979 and 1980), TV drama The old man /Starac/ (1983) and a screenplay for the short film Paradise Garden /Rajski vrt/ (1990).
He edited Libar by Miljenko Smoje (1981), Erotic folk songs / Erotske narodne pjesme/ (1984),[6] an anthology of Serbian folk poetry The golden foam from the sea /Zlatna pjena od mora/ (1990),[7] Dubrovnik's elegies /Dubrovačke elegije/ by Lujo Vojnović (1997), The Feast /Gozba/ by Pavle Solarić (1999) and A wonderful fountain – An anthology of Serbian poetry from Baranja to Boka Kotorska (2002).